Hardback book in dustjacket. Near fine/near fine new unread condition. Some bumping to book at the top front of the spine edge. Signed by the author directly on the title page in black pen.
Synopsis
It was a sudden strange fancy, and now Polly Perks, in her brother's clothes and her hair cut off, has joined up to fight for her country. But who is the enemy? What is she really fighting for? War teaches you a lot, she finds, when it turns out that you joined the Monstrous Regiment. ...more

Matter
by
Iain Banks

Publisher

Orbit

Published Date

7 February 2008

ISBN

9781841494173

Signed
First Edition
First Printing

£18.99

Hardback book in dustjacket. First edition first printing. Fine/fine new unread condition. Sigedn by the author directly on the title page.
Synopsis
In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has changed almost beyond recognition to become an agent of the ......more

Making Money + Banknotes
by
Terry Pratchett

Publisher

Doubleday

Published Date

20 September 2007

ISBN

9780385611015

First Edition
First Printing

£14.99

Hardback book in dustjacket. Fine/fine unread condition. Comes complete with first day banknotes - exclusive to one bookseller.
Synopsis
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him ......more

Lord of Emperors
by
Guy Gavriel Kay

Publisher

Earthlight

Published Date

6 March 2000

ISBN

978-0684861562

First Edition
First Printing

£7.99

Hardback book in dustjacket. Near fine/near fine used condition. No previous owner inscriptions. Spine firma and straight. Not price-clipped - shows price of £16.99.
Synopsis
Concluding the sequence that began with "Sailing to Sarantium", this novel features a huge cast of characters from all walks of life, caught up in rumours of war and perilous intrigue, as all the threads of the tale come together in violent upheaval.
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Lirael
by
Garth Nix

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published Date

1 September 2003

ISBN

000713732X

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First Edition
First Printing

£18.99

Hardback book in dustjacket. Near fine/near fine condition. Some shelfwear to book and dustjacket.Synopsis:Sequel to the spellbinding, award-winning fantasy adventure, SABRIEL. Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother and ignorant of her father's identity, Lirael resembles no one else in her large, extended family living in the Clayr's Glacier. She doesn't even have the Sight - the ability to See into the present and possible futures - that is the very birthright of the Clayr. Nonetheless, it is Lirael in whose hands the fate of the Old Kingdom lies. She must undertake a desperate mission under the growing shadow of an ancient evil - one ......more

Labyrinth
by
Kate Mosse

Publisher

Orion Books

Published Date

20 October 2005

ISBN

0752875221

Signed
First Edition
Limited Edition

£45.00

Limited edition in slipcase. Hardback book in dustjacket in slipcase. New very fine condition. Limited to 1000 copies and signed and numbered by the author on the title page. Still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. All these limited editions are later printings of the first edition.SynopsisSynopsis
July 1209: in Carcassonne a young girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in protecting it. It will take great sacrifice and faith to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe - a secret that stretches back thousands of ......more

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
by
Susanna Clarke

Publisher

Bloomsbury

Published Date

30 September 2004

ISBN

0747570558

Signed
First Edition
First Printing

£34.99

Hardback book in dustjacket. Near fine/ near fine unread book. Some bumping to spine ends /marks to page edges. Signed on the title page by the author. This is the black dustwrapper edition.
Synopsis
Centuries ago when magic still existed in England, the greatest magician of them all was the Raven King. A human child brought up by fairles, the Raven King blended fairy wisdom and human reason to create English magic. Now at the beginning of the nineteenth century, he is barely more than a legend, and England, with its mad King and its dashing poets, no longer believes in practical magic. Then the reclusive Mr Norrell of Hurtfew Abbey appears and causes the ......more

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
by
Susanna Clarke

Publisher

Bloomsbury

Published Date

30 September 2004

ISBN

0747570558

Signed
First Edition
First Printing

£34.99

.Hardback book in dust jacket. Near fine/ near fine unread book. Some bumping to spine ends /marks to page edges. Signed on the title page by the author. This is the white dust wrapper edition.
Synopsis
Centuries ago when magic still existed in England, the greatest magician of them all was the Raven King. A human child brought up by fairles, the Raven King blended fairy wisdom and human reason to create English magic. Now at the beginning of the nineteenth century, he is barely more than a legend, and England, with its mad King and its dashing poets, no longer believes in practical magic. Then the reclusive Mr Norrell of Hurtfew Abbey appears and causes ......more

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
by
Susanna Clarke

Publisher

Bloomsbury

Published Date

30 September 2004

ISBN

747578095

Signed
First Edition
First Printing
Limited Edition

£175.00

Hardback book in dustjacket presented in black slipcase. A limited edition. Signed and numbered by Susanna Clarke. Only 1,450 such copies produced. First edition first printing. Very fine unread copy - unopened and still sealed in original polywrap.SynopsisCenturies ago when magic still existed in England, the greatest magician of them all was the Raven King. A human child brought up by fairles, the Raven King blended fairy wisdom and human reason to create English magic. Now at the beginning of the nineteenth century, he is barely more than a legend, and England, with its mad King and its dashing poets, no longer believes in practical magic. Then the reclusive Mr Norrell of ......more

Jingo
by
Terry Pratchett

Publisher

Gollancz

Published Date

1997

ISBN

0575065400

First Edition
First Printing

£9.99

Hardback book in dustjacket. Near fine/near fine used condition. Not price-clipped - shows price of £16.99.
A weather cock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly you can tell which way the wind is blowing.
A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds.
And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's no law against it. It's called "war".
He's facing unpleasant foes who are out to get him... that's just the people on his side. The enemy might be even worse. And his pocket Dis-organiser says he's got Die under `Things To Do Today'.
But he'd better not, because the ......more

Iron Angel (Deepgate Codex 2)
by
Alan Campbell

Publisher

Macmillan

Published Date

2 May 2008

ISBN

9781405090360

Signed
First Edition
First Printing

£17.99

Hardback book in dustjacket. Signed by the author directly on the page. Fine/fine new unread condition.
Synopsis
Order has collapsed in Deepgate. The chained city is now in ruins; the Deadsands beyond are full of fleeing refugees. The Spine militia, unable to come to terms with the loss of their church, are trying to halt the exodus with brutal force. Driven away by the mob, Rachel Hael leads Dill along a very dangerous route through the wastelands, but what should have been a straightforward flight to Sandport becomes a desperate march for survival after the angel is captured and mutilated. Yet Dill has been crippled by more than the loss of his wings, for memories of hell ......more

Interesting Times
by
Terry Pratchett

Publisher

Gollancz

Published Date

2 November 1994

ISBN

0575058005

First Edition
First Printing

£12.99

First edition first printing. Near fine/near fine used. Hardback book in dustjacket. Not price-clipped - shows price of £14.99.
Synopsis
A novel in the humorous fantasy Discworld series. The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil caused by the revolutionary treatise, "What I Did on My Holidays". Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes, and warlords are struggling for power.
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Interesting Times
by
Terry Pratchett

Publisher

Gollancz

Published Date

2 November 2004

ISBN

0575058005

First Edition
First Printing

£9.99

VG+/VG+ used condition. Hardback book in dustjacket. First edition first printing. Spine firm and straight with no lean. No previous owner inscriptions. Dustjacket is not priceclipped - shows price of £14.99. Small water stain to dustjacket at very base of spine. A few marks/stains to the boards. Pages in excellent condition - no creases/folds.
Synopsis
A novel in the humorous fantasy Discworld series. The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil caused by the revolutionary treatise, "What I Did on My Holidays". Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes, and warlords are struggling for power...more

His Dark Materials
by
Philip Pullman

Publisher

Scholastic

Published Date

16 November 2001

ISBN

0439994349

First Edition
First Printing

£150.00

Hardback book in dustjacket. First edition first printing of the trilogy in one book. Comes with the scarce and desirable letter of acknowledgement by Pullman to the Publisher....more

Hero in the Shadows
by
David Gemmell

Publisher

Bantam Press

Published Date

1 April 2000

ISBN

0593044355

First Edition
First Printing

£8.99

Hardback book in dustjacket. VG/VG used condition. Some bumping to corners. A slight nick/surface scratch to about six page edges.
Book Description
The long-awaited third Waylander novel.
Synopsis
An evil city, banished into limbo, starts to reappear after a thousand years when the once powerful spells that held it start to wane.
The ruined city of Kuan-Hador reeks of dark mystery. Shunned by brigands and merchants alike, it is home to fearsome things - slavering white beasts who possess an insatiable desire for death and destruction. The sorcerers and their foul minions will soon be free to wreak a horrible vengeance upon all that lives. Only a rag-tag group of unlikely ......more

Green Mars
by
Kim Stanley Robinson

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published Date

21 October 1993

ISBN

0246138823

First Edition
First Printing

£39.99

First Edition. Fine/VG. Dustjacket is price clipped and there is a bump to the bottom right hand corner of the dustjacket. Also creasing to front inside flap of DJ. Second book in the mighty trilogy on the colonization of Mars...more

Fallen Dragon
by
Peter F Hamilton

Publisher

Macmillan

Published Date

2001

ISBN

0333900650

Signed
First Edition
First Printing

£10.99

Hardback book in dustjacket. First edition first printing. Signed by author on title page. Near fine/near fine used ocondition.
As a child, Lawrence Newton wanted nothing more than to gly starships and explore the galaxy, like his fictional heroes. But on the colony world of Amethi in the twenty-fourth century, Lawrence is living in the wrong era: the age of human starflight is drawing to a close. So, like many teenage hotheads before him, he rebels and runs away. Twenty years later, he's the sergeant of a washed-out platoon taking part in the bungled invasion of another world. The giant corporations who own the remaining starships euphemistically call such campaigns "asset ......more

Faerie Tale.
by
Raymond E. Feist

Publisher

Grafton

Published Date

1988

ISBN

0246130741

First Edition
First Printing

£9.99

Hardback book in dustjacket. First edition first printing. Vg+/VG+ read once copy with some bumping to corners and spine ends....more

Eric.
by
Terry Pratchett

Publisher

Gollancz

Published Date

August 1990

ISBN

0575046368

First Edition
First Printing

£180.00

Hardback book industjacket. VG+/VG+. Spine good and firm. Some creasing to dustjacket at top of front cover. Light remains of erased small previous pencil price to ffep. Dustjacket is price-clipped. Very nice copy of a very scarce title....more

ERIC
by
Terry Pratchett

Publisher

Gollancz

Published Date

August 1990

ISBN

0575046368

First Edition
First Printing

£140.00

Hardback book in dustjacket. VG/VG+. Spine lean from reading. Dustjacket is price-clipped. No previous owner inscriptions. Nice copy of one of the most elusive Pratchett first editions
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